Substitute for CD-ROM Boot Install

Sam Varshavchik mrsam at courier-mta.com
Tue Dec 7 03:18:20 UTC 2004


Fred Clearwater writes:

> All:
> 
> I'm trying to install FC2 on an older system that does not support booting 
> from the CD-ROM (there is a CD-ROM that works for reads but not booting).  In 
> the past, I've been able to create a floppy boot disk to start the install 
> process and then continue from the CD-ROM drive to finish the install of 
> other Linux versions.  Apparently the floppy is not an option for FC2 
> according to what I've read due to kernel size.  I read that there was a way 
> to use a floppy to run grub to boot the system and then somehow access the 
> CD-ROM to run the installation routine.  I've got the system to boot up from 
> a floppy with grub and leave me at the grub prompt on the system.  I've tried 
> copying the vmlinuz file from the CD-ROM to the hard drive and run that from 

I presume this is the vmlinuz images from images/pxeboot.

If so, you also need to boot using initrd.img from the same directory.  
Something like this.

title Installer
        root (hd0,0)
        kernel /vmlinuz
        initrd /initrd.img

As the saying goes: your partitions may vary…

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